After a four week summer break the 2026 Formula 1 championship resumes with this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix.
Kimi Antonelli arrives with a 50-point lead in the title race and is the Grand Prix favorite at +200, however the Mercedes youngster has won just once in the last five races.
Those events have featured five different winners, and with home hero Max Verstappen not among that quintet, the Zandvoort crowd will be hoping the sequence continues.
Dutch Grand Prix betting picks and predictions
Lewis Hamilton to win (+400)
Ferrari headed to Hungary before the break as favorites at a twisty track that was expected to suit them. However, just as was the case at Monaco earlier in the season, the Prancing Horses underwhelmed, and neither Lewis Hamilton nor Charles Leclerc made the podium in Budapest.
But things may have gone very differently. Hamilton initially qualified second in Hungary, just 0.012 seconds off pole-sitter Lando Norris, but he was given a three-place penalty for impeding Norris's McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri earlier in the session.
Both Ferraris then made poor starts, ruining the alternative strategy they had planned. To compound matters, Hamilton was handed a five-second penalty during the race for speeding in the pitlane.
Clearly it is harsh to judge Hamilton's fifth-place finish at face value and there could be some mileage in backing him to hit back at Zandvoort - a track with a similar profile to the Hungaroring.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton crashed out of the race last year, but he has been completely revitalised in 2026. He won in Barcelona entirely on merit and sits second in the championship standings.
Ferrari are pursuing a strategy of bringing incremental car improvements to each race, and that seems to be paying off for them, so the 41-year-old has to be considered among the most likely winners.
Oscar Piastri Top 3 finish (+225)
McLaren claimed their first win of the season in Hungary last time, and while the champagne went to Norris, his team mate Piastri had looked the likely winner in the early part of the race.
Piastri lost significant time negotiating backmarkers after his pitstop and lost the lead there, but it was moot anyway as his gearbox failed in the closing laps.
It has been a difficult season for Piastri, who led the championship at this point last year, but he was also in contention for victory in Japan earlier in the season and clearly on his day he can still be a threat.
The Australian scored his most recent victory in last year's Dutch Grand Prix, and looks to have been prematurely written off by the odds.
Gabriel Bortoleto points finish (+125)
Audi are enjoying a solid, if unspectacular, first campaign in Formula 1. They currently sit behind Alpine and Haas in the Constructors' Championship but had jumped ahead of those two midfield rivals in terms of performance when the cars were last in action four weeks ago.
The German team have scored points in each of the last three races, with Gabriel Bortoleto's eighth-place finishes in Britain and Belgium backed up by Nico Hulkenberg's ninth in Hungary.
Bortoleto has finished in the top 11 in all the last six races and the Brazilian should be challenging for the top 10 again this weekend.
Dutch Grand Prix Odds
Kimi Antonelli | +200 |
Lando Norris | +400 |
Lewis Hamilton | +400 |
Charles Leclerc | +600 |
George Russell | +750 |
Max Verstappen | +900 |
Oscar Piastri | +1200 |
Liam Lawson | +12500 |
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This article was written by a partner sports writer via Spotlight Sports Group. All odds displayed on this page were correct at the time of writing and are subject to withdrawal or change at any time.
